SparkFun Electronics Commentsurn:uuid:214d0e4e-f1b1-d287-ce26-ac5b4c9f82492015-08-02T16:28:20-06:00SparkFun ElectronicsShawnHymel on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry PiShawnHymelurn:uuid:5cb5dedf-4e8e-85f2-1640-2edf81256d492013-12-10T16:51:41-07:00<p>Cool! I could see some fun uses for that :)</p>mxgxw on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pimxgxwurn:uuid:62ccec1a-5103-c172-d143-a765617661c22013-12-10T12:45:48-07:00<p>Programming on the Raspberry Pi is always really fun :)</p>
<p>I&rsquo;ve made something pretty simmilar at the beginning of this year. It&rsquo;s written on python I called it &ldquo;rpitwit&rdquo;, it monitors your twitter account for a keyworkd and executes a command stored on a pre-defined directory.</p>
<p>https://pypi.python.org/pypi/rpitwit/0.2.0</p>
<p>The funny thing is that it comes pre-configured, ready to use and you can use python or bash scripts. The funny thing is that I wrote it for work with the Raspberry Pi but later I realized that it works on any Linux distribution with Python and PiPy :) I hope that you find it useful.</p>jrshell on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pijrshellurn:uuid:e9cddade-f461-7b1f-eeb8-cb88f21915992013-12-05T20:38:18-07:00<p>@salem_ponics</p>
<p>Like I said, it&rsquo;s just spitting out the temperature every hour right now. I just ordered the pH sensor from you guys today, so I hope to have it hooked up next week or the week after. I&rsquo;ll probably shut it down in January to solder everything together and then we will get it installed onsite.</p>brennen on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pibrennenurn:uuid:237f848c-a045-fe8d-321d-5f12275a802c2013-12-05T14:19:13-07:00<blockquote><p>In the arduino.cc/yun forum, many of the topic are php / sqlite related. There a lot of PHP fans out there…</p></blockquote>
<p>Yes indeed. We&rsquo;re pretty much doing ok running SparkFun on it, though we grouse a fair bit from time to time.</p>
<p>I should play around with serving PHP apps off a Raspberry Pi one of these days. Might be sort of perversely amusing to teach a class on the theme&hellip;</p>jomcl on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pijomclurn:uuid:8850b9eb-143e-9d7f-e0cd-1ec74c6da3772013-12-05T14:10:40-07:00<p>Of course, you must choice wathever languaje fit better in your proyect. But it&rsquo;s always good to have options.</p>
<p>In my case, I use C for a fast embeded project, but i will use C++ for a more robust project. In a PC enviroment, I preffer C# / VB.NET.</p>
<p>In the web world, I preffer ruby, but most of my previous proyects were PHP based.</p>
<p>In the arduino.cc/yun forum, many of the topic are php / sqlite related. There a lot of PHP fans out there&hellip;</p>brennen on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pibrennenurn:uuid:06d965b5-2d31-8716-9d5e-f649719a2f8f2013-12-05T13:51:45-07:00<blockquote><p>You can also install php on it.</p></blockquote>
<p>Although you will then have only yourself to blame if you wind up using PHP.</p>
<p>(I kid, I kid.)</p>CTaylor on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry PiCTaylorurn:uuid:b4e69a93-89c0-8904-50fe-49f5de57a6572013-12-05T13:37:32-07:00<p>This could certainly be done with an Arduino + Ethernet Shield, but the RPi is a much cheaper solution.</p>ShawnHymel on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry PiShawnHymelurn:uuid:d55079f0-2bd6-93c4-9ba3-04ed77152f572013-12-05T11:16:06-07:00<p>Good to know. I haven&rsquo;t actually played with a Yun yet.</p>jomcl on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pijomclurn:uuid:4a075539-d932-67be-a072-68b48971c5532013-12-05T11:11:10-07:00<p>The arduino yün also support python on the linux side. You can also install php on it.</p>ShawnHymel on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry PiShawnHymelurn:uuid:23deadb0-2faf-7f80-3639-69ceac9af1eb2013-12-05T11:01:17-07:00<p>Cool! I would love to see photos when you have it all set up. Would you be willing to share the Twitter handle so we could follow your project&rsquo;s data?</p>jrshell on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pijrshellurn:uuid:5ef5403d-00fe-5d76-8ed7-8842a8cdf6b22013-12-05T10:48:06-07:00<p>I&rsquo;m in the middle of a similar project using a Pi to remotely monitor an aquaponics system. I&rsquo;m using a waterproof DS18B20 and an AtlasScientific pH sensor to collect the data. I then tweet the data every hour so it can be checked any time, any place with a smartphone.</p>
<p>I&rsquo;m still prototyping, so it&rsquo;s just tweeting the temperature of my basement right now. In the spring it will get hooked up to the system. By that time I hope to also have it logging data to a database and capable of displaying basic graphs on the local netwrok. We will also probably include some additional components like water flow and soil moisture sensors, and maybe some solenoid valves. It&rsquo;s an evolving idea.</p>ShawnHymel on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry PiShawnHymelurn:uuid:8cd1b72e-0938-5211-0e91-02daefeb69f22013-12-05T10:17:38-07:00<p>Like you said - more than one way to do it. Flashing an LED is really pretty simple, and it could easily be done with an Arduino. Python opens up the world of easy-to-use string manipulations, which really shines on the Pi. The tutorial is just a getting started.</p>
<p>On the Twitter Race, we had to use a Pi because we needed the processing power. Even then, the poor Pi couldn&rsquo;t keep up with the flood of Tweets.</p>sgrace on Enginursday: Monitor Twitter With a Raspberry Pisgraceurn:uuid:063fdeb9-eba3-4286-9bce-197e3920328e2013-12-05T10:05:21-07:00<p>Why use a Raspberry Pi and not an Arduino? SFE in the past had many thing monitoring Twitter using the ethernet shield and an Arduino.</p>
<p>(This is just my curiosity since I know there are more than 1 way to do this).</p>